The teams that finish third and fourth get $24m and $22m, respectively. Those sums are $8m and $6m more than what the teams that finish fifth to eighth will receive ($16m).

The teams that are placed 9th to 16th, get an equal sum of $12m each, while the 17th to 32nd-placed teams will get $8m each.

Fifa raised as much as $791m through funding and more than half of it ($400m) is earmarked for prize money alone. The total funding amount for the 2018 World Cup was 40 per cent more than what was raised at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

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